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If I hadn't just bought a block of that stuff, I'd be envious now... This may be an inappropriate question and you don't have to answer: I am just curious how much one would get for such a large piece of burl.

From the title I thought you might be referring to you and your boss...

It was one of those double meaning phrases. Could be taken either way.

The fellow who brought the burls used to own a veneer mill that closed several years ago. I used to get a lot of real good wood from him. I hadn't seen him for a few years. He is kind of a wild one so I thought he was dead or in jail or something like that. Turns out over the last few years he has been harvesting and exporting burls to to a veneer mill in Spain.

He showed up with these four burls yesterday. He wanted $3000 for the load which wasn't out of line but a little high. When negotiations started getting colorful between him and my boss I found other things to do. With him it always goes this way. He thinks of veneer values and we think of wood yard values.
The wood in the photos are 3 spalted Sycamore burls and one redwood burl. The sycamore will be over half waste but there will be a lot of good stuff as well. The last time I had spalted sycamore from him I cut it up into guitar billets that sold for $200+ each. When I started doing knife handle material I tried to buy back some of the sycamore from some of my regular customers. I offered a 50% profit with no takers. The F word was used a few times.

The 4th photo shows a log portion of the Sycamore. There will be bands of contrasting colors and the snakeskin look you can get with sycamore. Most of this will get cut up for the guitar guys. They like to bookmatch pieces for acoustic guitar backs and for the fronts of solid body electric guitars. Ends up looking like rainbow snakeskin. It is a good tonewood as well.

The 5th photo is redwood burl. I will also cut most of it into guitar billets. They like to bookmatch it with the sapwood in the center.
Here is a guitar by one of my regular customers.